News Briefs
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IBBY Canada at TPL's inaugural Book Bash!
Come join some of Canada's best-known authors and illustrators of great kids' books at North York Central Library and Mel Lastman Square for the Toronto Public Library's inaugural Book Bash! Children's Literature Festival. It will be a fun day featuring readings, storytelling, a puppet show, face painting, crafts, activities, and enjoyment for all.
Saturday, August 28, from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Meet talents like Sarah Ellis, Marthe Jocelyn, Loris Lesynski, Kenneth Oppel, Shane Peacock, Barbara Reid, Eric Walters, and Paul Yee. Be sure to drop by the IBBY booth!
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IBBY Canada Cleaver Picture Book Award to illustrator Oleg Lipchenko
IBBY Canada is pleased to announce that illustrator Oleg Lipchenko is the winner of the 2009 IBBY Canada Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (by Lewis Carroll), published by Tundra Books. The $1000 award will be presented to Oleg Lipchenko at a date and location to be announced.
You may read the official press release in English here, or the French version here.
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Vivian Howard Receives Russell Grant for Research on Canadian Children's Literature
IBBY Canada is pleased to announce that Vivian Howard of Dalhousie University is the recipient of the 2009 Frances Russell Grant. The $1,000 grant will be presented to Ms. Howard on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 7:00 p.m., at the New Book Bash & International Children's Book Day Celebration, an annual event hosted by the Nova Scotia Children's Literature Roundtable.
Ms. Howard receives the Frances Russell Grant for her proposal, “The regional geography of creativity: an investigation of regional themes in Atlantic Canadian literature for children and young adults.” She is undertaking a detailed analysis of regional themes in contemporary and historic Atlantic Canadian children’s literature and aims to create print and digital resources to enable greater use of regional Atlantic literature among readers, scholars, teachers and librarians.
You may read the official press release in English here, or the French version here.
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IBBY Canada's Nominee is the Winner of the 2010 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award
IBBY Canada is delighted to announce that our nominee, the OSU Children's Library Fund, has won the 2010 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award! The OSU Children's Library Fund is a Canadian-based organization, started and run by Kathy Knowles, which raises funds to build, furnish and stock libraries in Ghana and West Africa. Since 1991 the organization has built five libraries in impoverished areas of Ghana's capital city Accra, as well as a community library in Goi, a fishing village in the Greater Accra region. The organization has also helped initiate and stock 150 smaller libraries. For more information on the OSU Children's Library Fund, please visit their website.
The IBBY Asahi Reading Promotion Award was established in 1986 during the IBBY Congress in Tokyo under the sponsorship of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper company. It is presented biennially to two groups or institutions whose outstanding activities are judged to be making a lasting contribution to reading promotion programmes for children and young people. Convenio de Cooperación al Plan de Lectura, in Medellín, Colombia, won the 2010 award alongside the OSU Children's Library Fund.
The official announcement of the 2010 award winners is available on the IBBY international website.
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2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award Winners Announced
David Almond, from the United Kingdom, is the winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award, and Jutta Bauer, from Germany, is the winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award.
The awards are presented biennially to a living author and illustrator whose works have made lasting contributions to children's literature. IBBY Canada's nominees for the 2010 awards were author Brian Doyle and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay.
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2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Winner Announced
The winner of the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is Kitty Crowther, an illustrator from Belgium. You may read the official announcement and more about Kitty Crowther and her work here.
The award is the world's largest children's and youth literature award. It is presented to authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and those active in reading promotion work. IBBY Canada's nominee for the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award was reading promotion organization Biblionef, South Africa.
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IBBY helps Haiti
When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, many Canadians wanted to know how they could help, and IBBY had the answer. IBBY's Children in Crisis Programme provides support for children whose lives have been disrupted through war, civil disorder, or natural disaster. Donations to this fund help create and implement bibliotherapy programs and libraries for children.
To date, IBBY Canada has received $875 in donations earmarked for the Children in Crisis Programme in Haiti. Thanks to all of you for your generous support!
OwlKids has recognized IBBY's efforts with a profile on President Patsy Aldana.
To donate now, click on CanadaHelps.org and search for IBBY. Be sure to choose the IBBY Children in Crisis Fund from the drop-down menu on the donation page.
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IBBY Canada members get exclusive offer on Picturing Canada!
 Until April 30, IBBY Canada members can purchase the paperback edition of Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing by Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman for 40% off of the retail price ($23.97 plus GST and shipping).
The authors were recipients of the 2007 Frances E. Russell Grant (administered by IBBY Canada), which supported the research for this seminal work.
Picturing Canada is the first interdisciplinary history of children’s publishing in Canada from 1800 to the present and features more than 130 interviews with authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and other contributors to Canadian children's book publishing. It is fundamental to our understanding of publishing history and the history of childhood itself in Canada.
Special thanks to our friends at the University of Toronto Press and IBBY Canada Past President Catherine Mitchell for arranging this wonderful deal.
Please complete and submit this order form before April 30 to reserve your copies at the reduced rate! If you are not an IBBY member and would like to take advantage of this offer, please join us now and indicate on your order form that your membership cheque is in the mail. Thank you!
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View IBBY President Patsy Aldana's powerful presentation about IBBY's Children in Crisis program
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IBBY Canada Past President Brenda Halliday participates in CBC radio panel on Reluctant Readers
Listen to the podcast here
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Help Haiti through IBBY Canada
The devastation and widespread loss caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti has reminded all of us of the importance of helping those in need during times of crisis.
IBBY's Children in Crisis program was already supporting bibliotherapy work in Haiti following the hurricanes of 2008.
Now, more than ever your support counts to help those in Haiti to begin to rebuild their lives.
Donate to the Children in Crisis fund through IBBY Canada and receive a
charitable receipt.
Donations can be made by:
1. Cheque -
payable to IBBY Canada and mailed to
IBBY Canada, c/o The Canadian Children's Book Centre, Ste. 101, 40 Orchard View Blvd.,
Toronto, ON, M4R 1B9.
Please specify that your cheque is to be directed to the Children in Crisis Fund for work in Haiti.
2. Online - through Canada Helps. Select the Children in Crisis option.
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Online giving to Children in Crisis Fund
IBBY has launched a worldwide appeal for funds to support its Children in Crisis Programme. Current Projects funded are the Lebanon Project (conflict management for war-traumatized children), the Gaza Project (libraries in two community centres in Palestine and bibliotherapy training for workers in those centres), and the Colombia Project (reading clubs and circulating libraries for 1,000 street children displaced by sixty years of war in Colombia). For more information, click here. It is now possible to donate to Children in Crisis online through Canadahelps.org and receive a Canadian charitable income tax receipt. .............................................................................................
Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman recipients of Russell Grant
IBBY Canada is pleased to announce that Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman are the recipients of this year's Frances E. Russell Grant. Read more here.
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Marion Seary Donations to IBBY Canada
Marion Seary was a bookseller, librarian and champion of excellence in books for children. She was also a longtime supporter of IBBY. To honour her memory, Maria Martella and several of Marion’s friends undertook two initatives – the Marion Seary Endangered Book Award and the production of a colourful alphabet poster featuring Marion’s own collage art.
Funds donated in the name of the award and profits from the poster sales are directed to IBBY Canada. We salute Marion’s friends for creating these tributes to Marion and her belief in the power of children’s books. To make a donation, please e-mail treasurer@ibby-canada.org.
To purchase Marion's alphabet poster, please visit library wholesaler, Tinlids.
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IBBY Canada's Support Continues
IBBY Canada has, for a third time, nominated South African EMEP (Extra Mural Education Project), Unknown 2 Known, to receive IBBY-Yamada funding. Liz Page, IBBY International’s communications director, explains the significance of the project:
"The progress made during this year demonstrates the absolute need for the project in the lives of the children ...The therapeutic value of using books and storytelling is clearly shown. The introduction of materials to allow the young people to produce their own books, thus increasing their commitment to books and reading, is one of the many ways to build up a reading culture where there was previously none."
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Give the Gift of IBBY!
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IBBY Canada works with CODE
IBBY Canada has partnered with Canadian non-profit CODE (the Canadian Organization for Development through Education) by nominating expert Canadian authors, editors and teachers of writing for children and young adults to participate in two projects: Read Liberia and the Burt Award for African Literature (in Tanzania, now expanding to Ghana and Ethiopia). Kathy Stinson has recently returned from her second trip to Liberia to lead writing workshops. She shares her experiences on her blog.
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IBBY Canada joins in the work of the TD National Reading Summit
In 2008, a group of librarians, parent activists, authors, publishers and corporate leaders came together with the goal of developing a national reading strategy for Canada. IBBY Canada has joined in this effort to work towards developing key policies and strategies with theTD Reading Summit. Read more about the Reading Summit here.
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